Re: Byte Addressability And Beyond

Michael S wrote:

Side-channel attacks on AES were 99%-fantasy of bored (or
attention-seeking) security researchers even before Rijndael core was
put in CPU hardware. Much more so now.
Weak point tends to be key management rather than encryption itself.
And, BTW, running arbitrary hostile code on your computer is bad, bad,
bad idea for 1e9 other reasons.

Running arbitrary hostile code where the user address space is not
completely disjoint from the supervisor access space is ALSO a bad
Idea.